Non Printable Character Display

[vtj]

Is there any way to view non-printable characters? Also sometimes (in the
old days) referred to as illegal ASCII digits. Or maybe printer control
characters. I have a corrupt table and can find nothing visible in the table
that would indicate corruption. I have also tried copying the table to a new
database and it is still corrupt. I also tried importing the table to a new
database - still corrupt. I tried copying the information to a new table
using VBA and integer or string types but that worked without a problem. I
have in the past been able to find corrupt fields that way but not this time.
As it is a fairly large table I was hoping that I would not have to rekey
the whole table. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

You can loop through the field byte by byte, showing the Ascii value of each
byte:

Dim lngLoop As Long

For lngLoop = 1 To Len(ValueToCheck)
Debug.Print Mid(ValueToCheck, lngLoop, 1) & ": " &
Asc(Mid(ValueToCheck, lngLoop, 1))
Next lngLoop

 

[vtj]

Thank you for the excellent suggestion. I have built it into a looping
program to evaluate all fields.